Example sentences of "it was well [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It was well made by Maclaren and Bodin and perfectly taken by Dave Mitchell .
2 Just before half-time City came back with a goal from Ian Baird it was well made and well taken … food for thought for the United defence and of course Smith who started off in the directors box but was down on the touchline after this incident in which David Penney charged into Junior Bent …
3 At least it was well cut , as befitted the Harvey Nichols label inside it , and the muted fuchsia shade flattered her pale skin ; she would wear her softly quilted black waterproof jacket over it as a concession to the cooler northern nights .
4 However everyone involved in the Consortium 's case appears to feel it was well constructed and presented .
5 And yet eve er quite a lot of people had mentioned it and it was well advertised .
6 I called the talk ‘ North to Eldorado ’ , for some reason , and it was well received .
7 It was well received at first , but the mood of the House changed and the Government was defeated on its Second Reading on 19th February .
8 It was well received by the electorate and , with a cooperative Democratic Congress behind him , he could expect to implement a majority of the plan 's ideas .
9 ‘ When the report was produced we were very happy with how it appeared , and it was well received , ’ says Acorns ' commercial director , John Overton .
10 It was well received and had several performances .
11 It was well received at first , and Mozart made 450 gulden out of it .
12 Generally it was well received by those in the ‘ know ’ .
13 It was well received in the horticultural press , but drew fire from the advocates of formal gardening , especially ( Sir ) Reginald Blomfield [ q.v. ] in his The Formal Garden in England ( 1892 ) .
14 It was well received in hardback .
15 It was well received by a fairly small house .
16 It was well received , and we plan to run some more and invite people who were on that session if they wanted to play a similar role .
17 The application which was submitted by the Society last November was discussed with the panel on February 18th and as you were told it was well received .
18 It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below .
19 As North and South Skirlaugh were divided by the Lamworth stream , it was well named .
20 It was well named .
21 A place in the small Indian establishment offered the successful applicant a career which could bring great responsibilities at an early age and at what was nominally a junior rank , and perhaps more importantly , it was well rewarded .
22 Trusthouse said it was well represented at the airport .
23 The CPNI was not instrumental in creating NICRA but it was well represented on its first executive committee : Noel Harris of AUEW TASS , a CPNI member , was the first chairman ; Derek Peters of the CPNI was secretary ; and Betty Sinclair of the Belfast trades council was elected to the committee .
24 The ILP had shrunk to a small faction by 1940 , its only significance being that it was well represented in the Commons .
25 The impact of Big Bang on GKR was especially profitable for the firm because it was well prepared .
26 It was well tackled by eager students .
27 This task was for him somewhat infra dig , but until Burden and Sergeant Martin brought him some information he had little else to do , and this way he could , at any rate , be certain it was well done .
28 It was well done , I thought , without sensationalism or sentimentality .
29 It was well done , ’ he said .
30 It was well done , Colt . ’
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